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By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, D.D..
Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby*
terieoi Church, Chicago
Chicago. July 12.—In
view of the
stalling increase in the crime of self
'destruction, as shown by the latest
statistics, the subject chosen by Dr.
Talmage for his discourse today is a
iost timely one. His text is Job ii, 9,
* “Curse God and die.”
Two incitements—desperate, fierce,
lefinite, outrageous! The one urges
-^broken hearted father, the financial
r bankrupt. the physically tormented
man, to grit his teeth and, with flash
ing eyes and uplifted hand, hurl a fu
tile malediction at the Almighty, to
curse God with *n eternal blasphemy.
What a shocking, appalling suggestion!
Enough to make all heaven stand
aghast in horror and to render even the
demon infested caverns of a hopeless
inferno silent with fear and to turn
the flushed cheeks aflame with the fires
of eternal woe white with terror.
Curse God! Who could do that but a
human being crazed and desperate and
reckless under intolerable anguish?
The second incitement puts in the
hands of the sufferer the suicide’s
knife, the hangman’s noose or the vial
labeled with the two fatal words,
f'Deadly Poison.” To how many in
jevery age has that insidious temptation
(Come? In the United States alone
/more than 30.WO persons have yielded
1 to it during the past four years. In
Chicago alone 1,294 persons passed out
of life by the suicide’s gate in three
^ years—nine victims on a single Sab-
' bath. In two months of the present
year seventy-five lives have ended in
self immolation. How long will the
human race listen to that hideous voice
which bade Job seek in death escape
?rom his misery? That tempter’s voice
Is sounding louder and louder every
day. Shall the crime of self murder
be allowed longer to spread the per
nicious doctrine that with one stroke
of the razor across the jugular vein
or with one plunge in front of a flying
locomotive or with one leap from high
building or lofty palisade the would be
suicide can find rest, eternal rest, God
given, blissful oblivion for all who are
I weary of life and peace for souls sick
of the results of sin?
JP The increasing suicidal epidemic of
^7 the present generation should be halted
; in its onward march of destruction. I
lift my voice today in warning against
this evil. It cannot be stayed by up
braiding a mangled corpse or by call-
im; a dead man a coward. I would
I^yerfully and earnestly try to indi
cate some of the causes which produce
it Then, in guarding you against the
Incipient evils, I might perhaps by the
grace of God keep some from ever tot
tering and swaying on the verge of the
precipice or tumbling into a suicide’s
grave. The gunpowder magazine can
be exploded by a spark. We would
deal this morning with primal causes
rather than with resultant coniiagra-
tions.
Atticism Il<*Ni>onsil>le.
First, I charge atheism with the chief
responsibility for the crime. Self mur
der is the hideous black visaged ex
ecutioner of the merciless monster we
call atheism, agnosticism, infidelity. It
is the old, slimy serpent coiled up un
der the overshadowing branches of the
gnarled and worm eaten tree of unbe
lief, at the foot of which sits the grin
ning, blear eyed hag misery crooning a
dirge for a lullaby. It is the death rat
tle of a human being whose parched
lips have been set to the rim of the
Chalice filled with the scorching, poi
sonous concoction of blasphemy and
falsehood compounded by a Voltaire, a
Rousseau, a Thomas Paine or a Robert
G. Ingersoll. It is the whetstone, wet
with human blood, upon which the
moral sensibilities can be blunted and
at the same time the suicide’s knife
sharpened, for it teaches immortal man
that there is no hereafter and that he
Is responsible for his life’s actions to
no Divine Maker and King.
No suicidal razor was ever honed
upon the leaves of the opened Bible.
Though the morning newspapers al
most every day are blackened with
the awful obituary tragedies of men
and women who have deliberately
taken their lives by the bloody hand
of self murder, you cannot find among
those who perished, in the full posses
sion of reason, a single consecrated
Christian church member. You can
not find one person among them all
who realized that he was a beloved
child of God and that he expected to
go to meet a loving Heavenly Father
unless the person killed himself dur
ing a fit of temporary insanity, as did
,^Iagh Miller, the great Scotch scientist,
who blew out his brains during men
tal derangement, or that eminent New
'York clergyman who, in delirium,
leaped from a window. Why? The
Bible distinctly and emphatically de
clares that no man has a right to com-
^mit self murder. It warns' men that
they must answer for this terrible
crime before the Judgment seat of
Christ, and it holds out to them no
hope of pardon during all eternity.
Read the eighth chapter of Revelation:
“And murderers and whoremongers
and idolaters and all liars shall have
their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone, which is the
second death.” Read tL. *st epistle
of John, third chapter and fifteenth
verse: “No murderer hath eternal life
abiding in 1dm.” In the sound of such
a divine warning, does any Christian
man, with his eyes wide open, attempt
to sound the “open sesame” of the
pearly gates of the New Jerusalem
with the crack of a suicidal platol?
r-
Dare any Christian, by self destruction,
obliterate that life which God alone
can give and which God alone has a
right to take away?
I’nt on the Goaiiel Armor.
The whole tendency of the gospel of
Jesus Christ is opposed to this suicidal
epidemic; the whole tendency of unbe
lief is to promote and increase it. To
the atheist life is a single span, one
abutment of which is the cradle and
the other the grave, at which he meets
annihilation. To such a man there is
no better principle of life than to eat,
drink and he merry, for tomorrow he
dies. He would make life a comedy
for all and death a great finale. His
idealism would do fo^ his fellow men
as that millionaire capitalist recently
did for his friends. He provided, by
last will and testament, that "no serv
ice of a religious character be held at
his grave; that a special train of Pull
mans be chartered to take his remains
from Louisville to Cincinnati to be cre
mated; that the buffet cars be well
stocked with good things to eat and
drink; that while his remains are being
cremated an orchestra render a pro
gramme of popular and select music,
and that when an intermission is reach
ed the friends ask the members of the
orchestra to drink ‘to the dead man’s
memory.’ ” That is the consistent out
come of the total annihilation belief.
The earnest Christian disciple says,
“Life is not a joke; death is not a
finale.” Life is an opportunity for do
ing good and for struggling against
evil. Because the good as w r ell as the
evil lives on for ever and ever we
ought to put ourselves in the hsinds of
the Almighty, who arranges our lot for
us, and say. as did Job. “All the days of
my appointed time will I wait till my
change come.”
The unbeliever in the gospel says: “If
there is a hell it is to be found this side
and not the other side of the grave.
When things go wrong the best way
to escape suffering is to snap the silver
cord of human life and silence the
beating heart.” The Christmn disciple
says: “Sanctified troubles are a spir
itual means by the grace of God for
raising an immortal soul on and up.
Unsanctified troubles are the inexora
ble means of dragging a sinful, de
fiant soul on and forever down. ‘He
that is unjust let him be unjust still,
and he w-liich is filthy let him be filthy
still, and he that is righteous let him
be righteous still, and he that is holy let
him be holy still.’ ” Such are the two ex
tremes—the tenets of the believers in
total annihilation at the brink of the
grave and those of the earnest disciple
of Jesus Christ. Do you wonder that
I charge the hideous monsters athe
ism, agnosticism and infidelity 'with
being the chief causes of this accursed
suicidal epidemic? Do you wonder
that I look to the gospel of Jesus Christ
to stay the hand of self immolation?
Will you not, by buckling on the gospel
armor, prepare to wage incessant war
against the insidious demons who
blight the lives of your fellow men by
robbing them of peace, joy and faith
and leaving them so despoiled and im-
bittered that they prefer death to life?
FiiImc Stamlardn of HnppineMa.
False standards for happiness can
be catalogued among the frequent, pro
lific causes of thd suicidal sin. They
arc the decoying mirages which tempt
the weary life's traveler to lose himself
in the midst of a Sahara of sand. They
are the deceitful stars, twinkling their
benedictions over altars of silver and
of gold and of fame, which suddenly
go out and leave the devotees worship
ing in total darkness. They are the
musical voices of the sirens singing
their sweetest songs when luring their
victims on to fatal shipwreck.
In the false standards of happiness
can be found the origin of the disap
pointments which so often end in sui
cide. Men do not first seek wealth or
fame to possess those treasures, as a
miser might hoard up his gold. They de
sire the merchant prince’s palace and
the king’s throne because they foolish
ly think that happiness is a coy maiden
who loves to robe herself in silks and
to have her throat and fingers a-glitter
with precious jewels, and therefore
they can the more readily find her in
the rich man's mansion than in the
poor man’s hut. If they cannot have
wealth or fame or worldly honor is
about to be taken away from them,
then they feel they cannot have happi
ness. Then, with one pull of the pis
tol’s trigger, they fliug away their
blighted lives, as did the late “cotton
king” of Louisiana, who lost his for
tune in Wall street, or as did the late
Sir Hector Macdonald of the British
army, who killed himself to avoid fac
ing the publicity of a court martial and
a disgraceful dismissal from the king’s
service.
Source of True Ilapplne«>.
Now, my friends, the human being
who commits suicide merely because
the golden breasted oriole of wealth
has plumed her wings and disappeared
from sight or because the iconoclast of
trouble has shattered the idol of fame
is doing a fool’s business. Happiness,
true happiness, the happiness for
which we all long and for which some
of us are seeking, is not dependent up-
| on outside surroundings, but upon the
condition of the heart. Some of the
most unhappy human beings have
been the so called worldly successful
men. Did all the unlimited financial
wealth of Nathan Rothschild make
him happy? For many years he was
the universally recognized financial
king of Europe. In a single day he
made over $9,000,000. At the battle
of Waterloo he was an anxious specta
tor. As soon as that battle was de
cided he put spurs to his horse and
rode like the wind toward London.
He had a relay of horses awaiting
him and a special boat chartered to
take him across the channel. Then,
next morning, he appeared upon the
London Exchange and circulated the
report that Wellington was defeated.
Securities tumbled. His brokers bought
| them up by the millions of dollars’
worth. The following day dispatches
from Wellington announced that Na
poleon's army was annihilated. Se
curities at once jumped upward. Na
than Rothschild pocketed his millions
of profit. But, though Nathan Roths
child was the wealthiest financier in
all Europe, he was one of the most
unhappy of men. When a friend vis
ited him one day and said, “You ought
to be a happy man with all this
wealth,” Nathan turned and, with a
look of scorn, answered: “Happy!
Happy! I happy! Bosh! Let us
change the subject.”
If wealth does not In itself produce
happiness , neither does worldly fame
nor honor. Men strive for place and
power as if with them they were sure of
happiness. They plot and conspire and
murder that they may mount the steps
of a throne, and when they succeed
they find that they have gained noth
ing but anxiety and worry. When the
Servian king and queen, Alexander
and Draga, were assassinated Pope
Leo XIII. was heard to exclaim in the
Vatican, “Oh, when will the people learn
that thrones stained with blood are not
worth having?” And yet fw financial
wealth and worldly honor thousands of
men will surrender their all. They will
follow these w r ill o’ the wisps, though
the shining lights may lead them over
miasmic swamps and quaking bogs
and into the fatal quicksand. They
will seek and struggle and continue to
struggle to possess these supposed
priceless treasures, because they be
lieve that in them the great heart of
happiness, rich blooded and life giving,
can be found. Then when they have
been defeated in the struggles of life
they sometimes drive the destroying
dagger into their own arteries, as a
tantalized serpent buries his poison
ous fangs in his own flesh.
Joy of HcliiinK Othern.
Moral application: Do not try to
build the temple of happiness out of
yellow bricks. Think not that the
broad highway which leads to the
throne room of joy is always lined \yith
applauding and vociferating» multi
tudes. The ground mole may tunnel
his way into a gold mine, but he still
remains a ground mole. The bat, fly
ing about in the darkness, may be able
to push his claws into trembling men’s
pockets, but he is still nothing but a
hateful bat.
Envy and covetousness also lead to
suicide. The unwillingness to love our
neighbors as ourselves is one of the
indirect causes of this dreadful sin.
Two ways of looking at this old world
—the one is through the green glasses
of envy, the result unhappiness; the
other way is through the sanctified
crystals of a tender, a holy love, the
result gospel joy. The one way Is to
bitterly bemoan because some people
are supposed to be better off than we
are. The other way is to try to find
out how many people are worse off
than we are and then with a Christian
desire try to help them ns we would
like to be helped if we were in their
places. Through what kind of lenses
have you been scrutinizing the human
race? Through the green glasses of
envy, which make all the world look
dark, or through the clear, transparent
crystals of gospel love, which always
make all the world look bright? No hap
py man ever wanted to commit suicide.
No man can be truly unhappy who is
trying to help his fellow man. When
he finds that he is making others hap
py. their joys become part of his joys.
The suicidal knife is blunted upon
the whetstone of kindness and love
and self sacrifice for another reason:
When a Christian earnestly consecrates
his life to helping his fellow men he is
amazed how many troubles are piled
at his neighbor’s door and, instead of
repining at his lot, thanks God for the
mercies he enjoys. He becomes more
contented to firry his own burdens be
cause as his brother’s sorrows grow
larger and larger in his eyes his own
necessarily by comparison shrink and
dwindle and become less and less.
Beautifully illustrated is this thought
by an old Latin classic: The gods, hear
ing the continual grumblings of the
human race, decreed that all men
should be able to choose their own bur
dens, but they must choose some. They
decreed that every man, woman and
child should bring their load of trouble
in a pack and throw it in one place.
Then all the different troubles of the
world were piled in a heap. The rich
man came from his palace; the poor
man came from his hut. ^he old man
came tottering upon his staff; the
young man came leaping as a roe upon
the mountain side. The father came,
followed by his swarm of children; the
single man came alone. The bride
groom came, leading his bride; the wid
ower came after his wife had been
snatched from his side. All came with
their troubles. All threw their packs
in the one pile. “Now,” said the gods
to the assembled people, “let each in
dividual select any one pack of trouble
that he would.” Of course the multi
tudes w r ere overjoyed. Each man at
first lifted and weighed the troubles of
every other man. “Then at last,” so
goes the fable, “each individual at a
given signal was satisfied to lift up
again his own troubles and In content
ment go his own way.”
The Covrard'a Heart.
No power on earth can make a hu
man being more contented than that
which comes from being brought into
sympathetic touch with other people’s
trials, for all people have them. The
white, fleecy clouds off in the distance,
circling about the mountain top, may
look like sea gulls sporting with the
crest of a wave. On nearer approach
they are only fog and drizzling mist
The ships far out at sea have spotless
sails and trimmest hulls. But upon
nearer approach we see that their can
vas is befouled and their hulls scarred
with the blows of many tempests.
Clear crystals of a tender love will not
only make us try to help our fellow
men and desire to live as long as we
can for that purpose, but thej will also
teach us to be more and more content
ed with our own lives. Brother, better
i change the lenses in your spectacles.
Better be a sunbeam playing in th£
day than a sulking owl, .solitary and
alone, croaking during the night.
A coward’s heart, is a direct cause
for the suicidal sin. “Oh, no,” says
i some one; “that cannot be. A suicide
may be this or that of the other thing,
| but he is not a coward. No man is a
: coward who dares to comm' 'elf mur-
i der. No man is a cowa* vho will
calmly look death in the and defy
the grinning skeleton o' tomb.”
Ah, my friend, you wrong. The
direct cause of the idal sin is in
variably the result coward’s heart,
j It is the act of a a who runs away
from trouble ir .d of courageously
grappling " The bravest of
deeds is to necessary to save oth
ers. • But uld not be heroic for
men to (P y because they are too
cowan’ ht. Neither is it he
roic or for any man to commit
suic' ’ < ly because he is too craven
her - to meet the responsibilities of
lif they arise. The noblest word in
respects in all the English lan-
i , go is “duty.” That word will some-
jjics compel its followers to plunge
into and endure the bayonet thrusts of
a thorny hedge, as it will sometimes
give the pleasanter command of fol
lowing that stern word through an em
bowered pathway.
Be True to Christ.
Now, my friends, as the suicidal sin
is often caused by a coward’s heart,
how can we best become brave and
true? How can we better fight this
tendency to self murder than by nobly
and conscientiously and dauntlessly
meeting the most pressing duty which
is nearest at hand? How can we cease
to be cowards better than by fulfilling
our honorable obligations which we
know we owe to our Got? and our
Christ? We have all read of the Ro
man sentinel who during an awful
eruption of Mount Vesuvius was ready
to die at his post when the officer of
the guard did not relieve him and al
low him to fly for his life. Should we
not be equally ready to be brave and
true to that gront Commander who
shall yet ride the white horse of vic
tory and in the great millennial day
come to claim and defend his own? He
has placed us here to our duty, to
live his life in the worfft, to serve him
by serving our fellow men. Shall we
cravenly desert our post? Shall we
declare that the task assigned us is too
hard for us? Rather let us look to him
for the almighty" strength that he
promises to his faithful servants that
we may endure ns seeing him who is
invisible. So let us stand undaunted
beneath his standard until his sum
mons reaches us and we quit with the
triumphant shout: “1 have fought a
good tight. 1 have finished rhy course.
I have kept the faith. Henceforth
there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness.”
The bravest act in all the world for
some men is to publicly confess
Christ. While we are preaching today
on the suicidal sin are you ready to
be as brave as William Cowper once
was? In a time of great mental de
pression he was on his way to the
river Thames to take his own life.
When he arrived near the fatal waters
he saw a man fishing at the end of the
dock from which he intended to throw
himself into the stream. He turned
back. Then he went home and tried
to stab himself to death, but the knife
snapped in two. Then he tried to
hang himself, but the rope broke.
Then William Cowper realized what
he was doing and how cowardly he
was. He confessed his error before
the world and gave himself up, as nev
er before, to sound forth the divine
praise. Oh. my friends, will you not
realize that one of the chief reasons of
the cowardly tendency to suicide is
the unwillingness to publicly confess
and work and live for Christ? As all
roads were once supposed to lead to
Rome, every act and deed and thought
of your life should lend you to the
foot of the cross. Then, oh, then, if
you are true to Christ, yos will never
be false to yourself! Then, oh, then,
your life, instead of having a suicidal
tendency, will be an eternal life of tri
umphant joy!
[Copyright, 190.'3, by Louis Klopsch.J
TELESCOPE FOR AFRICA
Description of Instrument to
Be Mounted at Bulawayo.
LIGHT IN WEIGHT, BUT DURABLE.
Oar School Increase.
The cost of our school system, public
and private, is probably not less than
$300,000,000 a year. Our public com
mon schools, which provide for more
than lo.OOO.OOO children, cost $213,274,-
3r»4 in 1900. Of this $38,083,953 went
for sites, buildings, furniture and ap
paratus, $130,031,838 was paid in sal
aries to teachers and superintendents,
and the rest went chiefly In care of
buildings, grounds, etc. There are
247,321 buildings In the United States
used for school purposes, and their
value, Including land and contents of
buildings, Is placed at $588,023,736.
Today there is enough schooling sup
plied to give every citizen 908 days of
solid education as his life supply. Fifty
years / ago the average was but 420
days, and when the nineteenth century
opened the average was but eighty-two
days. Today Uncle Sam gives his chil
dren more than twelve times as much
schooling as he did 100 years ago.—
Homiletic Review.
Marriage Extreme* lx Britain.
A recently published table of the
British census gives the respective
ages of all the married couples in the
kingdom. There is one husband of
ninety-five years who has a wife of
twenty-one, while three husbands rang
ing in age from eighty-five to ninety-
five have secured wives of twenty-five.
Elderly wives and youthful husbands
are rarer, and the greatest disparity in
this direction is between a wife of slXr
ty-flve years and her husband of twen
ty. The oldest couple In the*list are
aged 100 and ninety-five respectively,
while the youngest pair have only num
bered sixteen and fifteen summers re
spectively.
It I» Very Similar to Those In t’«e
at Georgetown University and the
United States Naval Observatory.
ResnltH of Observation to Be Sent
to Washington Before Given to the
World.
South Africa will shortly have one of
the finest telescopes in the world, says
the Washington Post. This magnifi
cent instrument was built In Washing
ton. It is constructed much on the
same lines as those at Georgetown uni
versity observatory and the United
States Naval observatory. It is the
same size optically, the object glass
having an aperture of twelve Inches.
However, ns the latitude of Bujawnyo,
Rhodesia, for which place the instru
ment is intended, is 20 degrees south
instead of nearly 40 degrees north, as
the location in Washington, the ar
rangement of the instrument is neces
sarily different. The focus is five feet
shorter, and on this account the mount
ing is lighter.
This telescope Is very rigidly built,
although mere weight was not the ob
ject sought. The telescope tube weighs
about one ton, and about 5.000 pounds
are moved when the instrument is
turned rn right ascension. It consists
of a heavy iron pillar, on top of which
rests the head stock carrying the polar
and declination axes. The former
points to the pole, and it is made to ro
tate by means of clockwork at the exact
rate the stars move, so that if a star be
brought into the field of the telescope
it can be kept in view for hours, as the
clock moves with the utmost regularity.
Should any deviation occur on account
of difference in friction in different po
sitions this is instantly corrected by an
ingenious arrangement called the con
trol, which is affected electrically and
governed by the standard clock of the
observatory that moves easily with the
stars. The two’ axes of the instrument
—the polar and the declination—are
provided with circles used to point the
telescope to a certain position in the
sky, and the fine graduations can be
read from the eye end by means of mi
croscopes. For approximate and more
rapid sotting these circles are also pro
vided with coarse graduations which
can be seen with the naked eye.
There is another arrangement, how
ever, which enables the observer to set
the' telescope without looking at the
circles and without calculating the
hour angle of the object sought. This
consists of two dials placed at the
south end of the pillar at the height
of the observer’s eye. The two axes of
the instrument are geared down and
end in two band wheels; by turning ei
ther of these the motions are indicated
on the dials. Each dial hand moves at
double the speed of the corresponding
axis. The declination dial is figured
from naught to ninety degrees each
way, the smallest space being one de
gree. The right ascension dial has five
second spaces and Is driven by an or
dinary eight day clock. As the dial
turns with the star and the hand with
the telescope, this arrangement per
mits to set by right ascension instead
of calculating the hour angle, which
consumes much time. Notwithstand
ing the large number of gears involved
In driving this mechanism, the total
back lash Is so small that a star of
known co-ordinates is brought near the
center of the findings at once. George
N. Saegmuller is the inventor of this
valuable instrument. He planned It In
1888. and a few years later he placed it
in the great Denver telescope of twen
ty inches aperture, built in Washing
ton.
The lightness of this South African
telescope is remarkable, while at the
same time every part Is strong and
durable. The force necessary to move
the Instrument is about four pound® on
a radius of seven inches. The motions
are also communicated to the eye end,
and it takes only a force of about two
ounces to clamp and remove the tele
scope either in right ascension or dec
lination. The fine hour circles can be
read from the floor, and the declination
circle from the eye end of the instru
ment. Tiffs eye end is so arranged that
the spoctograph and photographic ap
paratus can be readily attached. The
Illumination Is by means of incandes
cent lumps, and, In addition, there Is a
self adjusting oil lamp. A very com
plicated measuring apparatus, called
the position micrometer, accompanies
this instrument.
Rev. Father Goetz, S. J., the cele
brated Jesuit astronomer who went to
South Africa some months ago to erect
an observatory at Bulawayo, Is pre
paring a place for this great telescope.
Observations will begin at the earliest
day possible, and the reports w ill be
forwarded to Georgetown university
and be given to the world from Wash
ington.
Novel Dental Device.
A Moscow dentist has invented a sys
tem whereby false teeth can be made
to grow Into the gums ns firmly as nat
ural ones. After a few months’ use It
is Just as hard to extract them ns It Is
to dislodge the genuine molar made on
the premises. Soon, possibly, this tooth
grafting Muscovite will achieve, sug
gests the London Globe, that giddiest
height to which the dentist can soar,
the manufacture of false teeth that
ache. f
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eighteen months ago and I have not
ha.d a touch of the piles since.—H. A.
Tisdale, Summerton, S. C. For Blind]
Bleeding, Itching and Protruding
Piles no remedy equals DeWitt’a
Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by Chero
kee Drug Co.
King Edward attenaed the wedding
in London of Lady Juliet Lowther
and Mr. Robin Duff.
Maitland, Fla.
The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Cc.,
Baltimore, Md.
Gentlemen :—I have had eczema
over thirty years, have tried many
remedies prescribed by various physi
cians, but to nothing has theidisease
yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul
phur. I think if used properly it is
undoubtedly a specific for eczema.
[ have prescribed it for others with
most satisfactory results. I consider
it the best remedy for cutaneous
affections I have ever known, and re
gard it us the greatest medical dis
covery of the age.
Respectfully yours,
W. A. Heard, M. D.
For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co
A pastoral letter by Cardinal Kopp,
of Breslau, against Socialists caused
disturbances in the churches when
read.
Treat Vour Kidneys for Klieinuatlsm.
When you are suffering from rheu
matism, the kidneys must be attend
ed to at once so that they will elimi
nate the uric acid from the blood.
Foley’s Kidney Cure is the most ef
fective remedy for this purpose. R.
T. Hopkins, of Polar, Wis., says,
I "After unsuccessfully doctoring three
years for rheumatism with the best
doctors, I tried Foley’s Kidney Cure
and it cured me. I cannot speak too
highly of this great medicine.”
Cherokee Drug Co.
Many people who scatter seeds of
kindness never have any of the plants
growing in their own garden.
By taking a thorough course of
Rheumacide you rid your system of
the poisons that cause rheumatism.
A permanent cure is the result. It
is the standard rheumatic remedy,
laxative and tonic. At Druggists.
The Venezuelan revolution has been
crushed and Gen. A,anuel A. Matos,
its leader, has taken refuge in Curaco.
A. R. Bass, of Morgantown, Ind.,
had to get up ten or twelve times in
the night, and had a severe backache
and pains in the kidneys. Was cured
by Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee
Drug Co.
The Board of Building Trades in
New York is split into two factions,
ore of which offers to break the strike.
To Cure u Cold lu One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig
nature is on each box. 25c.
W. S. Devery gave bail for Samuel
Parks, the New York labor leader, ac-
i cused of extortion.
Sodnd kidneys are safeguards of
life. Make the kidneys healthy with
Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee Drug
Co.
Dr. Richard Gottheil, of New York,
was elected President of the Federa
tion of American Zionists.
The Latest Neck Ckalns.
Some of the latest neck chains, say*
the New York Mail and Express, are
made long enough to be knotted In the
first twist around the neck and still
have ample length to hang down with
a fanciful pendant at the end of it
No business con pissi’lv be
successful that is not
tised.
This is a sweeping statement,
but it is true. There axe some
merchants in this community
whose experience apparently
contradicts the statement.
The contradiction, however,
is only apparent. If they have
attained any degree of success
they have advertised. They have
let people know what they had to
sell, what they were here for and
what they proposed to do. Just
in proportion to the thorough
ness with which they have done
this and met the conditions of
their competitors they have suc
ceeded.
If they have used the newspa
pers they have worked with the
best tools so far as getting pub
licity is concerned. If they have
worked without the newspapers
they have been handicapped and
have not attained the highest
possible measure of success.
A fertile seed planted in fertile
ground, carefully watered, will thrive
and bear fruit
A properly organized business,
in any inhabited place, well advertissd
will succeed. The law of
growth is as certain and inexorable is
one case as the other.
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